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Women at Auschwitz, May 1944. (Photo/Forward-Yad Vashem Archives-AFP via Getty Images)
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Did Nazis make these Jewish women at Auschwitz infertile?

by Hallie Lieberman and Forward September 14, 2022

In a TikTok that went viral this summer, a young woman asks her 93-year-old grandmother whether she got her menstrual period during the time she was in Auschwitz. “No,” says the grandmother, […]

Ram Dass, right, born Richard Albert, with his friend Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. (Joan Halifax/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inReligion

Discovering Ram Dass the Jew

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz December 24, 2019
Terry Friedkin with five of her grandchildren. (Courtesy Friedkin)
Posted inFirst Person

Our community must not ignore fertility issues

Terry Friedkin by Terry Friedkin November 12, 2019November 13, 2019
Sarah before the miraculous birth of her son, Isaac, by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inColumns

Conception is still miraculous — especially for those who struggle with infertility

Maharat Victoria Sutton by Maharat Victoria Sutton April 4, 2019April 4, 2019

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